Section 394.   Order for notifying address of previously convicted offender.

(1) When any person, having been convicted by a Court in India of an offence
punishable with imprisonment for a term of three years, or upwards, is again convicted of
any offence punishable under any of those sections or Chapters with imprisonment for a
term of three years or upwards by any Court other than that of a Magistrate of the second
class, such Court may, if it thinks fit, at the time of passing a sentence of imprisonment on
such person, also order that his residence and any change of, or absence from, such
residence after release be notified as hereinafter provided for a term not exceeding five
years from the date of the expiration of such sentence.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) with reference to the offences named therein,
apply also to criminal conspiracies to commit such offences and to the abatement of such
offences and attempts to commit them.
(3) If such conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, such order shall become
void.
(4) An order under this section may also be made by an Appellate Court or by the
High Court or Court of Session when exercising its powers of revision.
(5) The State Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the provisions
of this section relating to the notification of residence or change of, or absence from,
residence by released convicts.
(6) Such rules may provide for punishment for the breach thereof and any person
charged with a breach of any such rule may be tried by a Magistrate of competent jurisdiction
in the district in which the place last notified by him as his place of residence is situated.